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For 30 years, the <a href="http://www.cwhf.org">Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame</a> has celebrated the legacy of women.

Many of these inspirational stories are linked to historic sites in the Nutmeg State.

In this week's Road Trip Close to Home, News 12 photojournalist Lori Golias takes us on <a href="https://www.cwhf.org/heritage-trail">The Connecticut Heritage Trail</a>. &nbsp;

In this week's Road Trip Close to Home, News 12 photojournalist Lori Golias takes us on The Connecticut Heritage Trail.  

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What the great thing about coming in at 4 a.m. No traffic. No good, smooth sailing, smooth sailing. Yeah. And I guess still for right now. Not too bad. Yeah, it isn't too bad. We're still looking pretty good and the weather is not too bad. At least for the first half of today. Things do switch up later on, but the warmer temperatures are nice. Oh, yeah, we'll see that into the weekend as well. So we're looking forward to that fifties, uh, for a lot of us for today, you are gonna need those umbrellas for a little bit later on getting into your evening period and then, uh, for your tonight, we can expect things to kind of dry out. When I say tonight, we're looking closer to your maybe 89 o'clock hour. We're getting your future cast to time it out. But even still numbers don't fall off too much as we're seeing a lot of us into the forties for you tomorrow. Here's a look at later on this morning at about nine o'clock. We're in the forties. 41 for Birch Port, 44 for orange clouds fill in late parts of our morning. You can expect to see some showers getting into the afternoon, mainly for areas up north north of 84 1st. And then most of us will get engulfed into some rain. By the time we head into that commute home, 567 o'clock, by around your 89 o'clock hour, we're looking gonna dry out and we're looking good. Heading into your Saturday could see a little bit of some patchy fog for the early parts. Your Saturday. Keep that in mind if you do got some traveling to get done for the morning period, but we'll start to see some sunshine as it progressed into your afternoon. Still gonna battle a few clouds for your Saturday. But look at some of these numbers. You got 53 for Torrington, Thomaston, Watertown, 54 for Newtown, 52 for those out toward orange. So whatever plans you got going on for your Saturday, you are looking pretty good things change for your sub, looking dry, but a cloudy gray start for your Sunday morning. And then we see those showers start to work its way in right around the late morning and into the early parts of your afternoon where again, you will need the umbrella. We're talking heavier bouts of that rain, not the little stuff that we're gonna work with today. We really see things pick up. So just to put things into perspective, we're looking at about a quarter of an inch of rain for this first round for today. And then you're gonna tackle on another inch to an inch and a half by the time we head into your Sunday, where those are your total. So again, we're looking at a lot of rain to wrap up this weekend.

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 Road Trip: Tour Connecticut's Women's Hall of Fame through virtual museum

Well, for 30 years, the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame has celebrated the legacy of women. Many of these inspirational stories are linked to historic sites in the Nutmeg State and this week's road trip close to home news, 12 photo journalist, Laurie Goliath takes on the Connecticut Heritage Trail. Women are 51% of the population. They hold the world up on their shoulders and they should be recognized for their work. The Connecticut women's Hall of Fame is an educational organization. We are not a physical location where people can come in our museum, so to speak is online in the hall. We have inducted women that represent leaders and pioneers in every field. We use their stories to help inspire the next generation of female leaders. It's amazing how many stories of women are out there that are not known. The heritage trail is on our website and you can go all over the state of Connecticut to see these homes and um museums like the Hill Stead Museum and Prudence Crandall's home in the Stove Center. The contribution that Harriet Beecher still made in writing her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin is Paramount and the museum there gives a testimony to her life and the impact that writing that book had on Connecticut as well as the world. Our trail is phenomenal. It goes from Cost Cop to Enfield to Canterbury. We are at the Prudence Crandall Museum which is the site of the Canterbury female boarding school. She was the first woman in Connecticut that wanted to teach both black and white girls at the same time, she was before her time. All of these women um did things against the grain of society. There are sites that really speak to how women have contributed to Connecticut and really to our world. You can also find under the inductee gallery, all of the inductees that belong in those places and you can read a little bit more about them. We make tribute films for every inductee, Coralie Bentley Red clip at the hall. We believe that these stories, documenting these stories, telling these stories allows young girls and boys to realize their unlimited potential. And that's part of our vision at the hall. We want to have a world where there's untapped potential locked. Sherpa is a pioneer in the world of extreme mountaineering where women's history and their abilities are seen and recognized. I think it's very important for young women to know whose shoulders they're standing on. And if they come to a place in their life where they are distraught or feeling like they can't go on, they can look at these women and say, hey, they did it. I can do it too. Some incredible women right here in our own state. It's interesting when you look at all their individual stories, they're powerful. But then when you put them all together, it really is a story. It is. And I feel like every little corner of the state has someone. So the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame also hosts live events, discussions and educational programs. women and the climate crisis will be held in May at the Fairfield University Quick Center for the Arts. If you'd like information on that head over to news 12 dot com.

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